AWS Provisioning Services
AWS Tutorial: AWS Provisioning Services
Welcome to the AWS Provisioning Services lesson. Manually creating infrastructure using the console is slow and error-prone. AWS offers high-level managed services to automate deployments.
Why Learn Provisioning Services?
In modern software engineering, you never want to manually configure a production server. By using managed provisioning services, you can reliably deploy entire application environments in minutes and drastically reduce human error.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will get a high-level introduction to:
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS CloudFormation
High-Level Provisioning Tools
AWS provides specific services designed to help you provision infrastructure seamlessly:
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Platform as a Service (PaaS). It is the easiest way for developers to quickly deploy and manage web applications. You simply upload your code, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling.
- AWS CloudFormation: An Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. It allows you to model your entire AWS infrastructure in a text file (JSON or YAML). CloudFormation reads the file and safely builds out all the resources in the exact order required.
We will explore both of these in-depth in the following lessons!
Exercise
?Which of the following is considered an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service used to model your AWS environment in a text file?